Wendy Williams insists she has no cognitive impairment and conservatorship is stuck in a “luxury prison.”

Former talk show host Wendy Williams told radio show “The Breakfast Club” Thursday morning that she did not have cognitive impairment as her guardian claimed, tearfully claiming she was being held in a “luxury prison” with only limited contact with his family.

Williams, who retired from the public eye in 2022, called into the show to dispute the reports. on his mental capacity.

“I’m not cognitively impaired,” Williams said on the morning show, “but I feel like I’m in prison.”

At one point breaking down during the interview, Williams painted a bleak picture of her daily life.

“I live in a place where people are in their 90s and 80s and 70s. …I eat breakfast, lunch and dinner here on the bed. I watch TV, I listen to the radio, I look out the window, I talk on the phone,” she said.

One of Williams’ nieces, Florida anchor and reporter Alex Finnie, joined him on the show, agreeing with Williams that the New York site where her aunt resides is a “luxury prison.”

“She’s there every day, every hour of the day, every week, every month. …I went to New York in October to visit him. And the level of security and the level of questions that were being asked in terms of “Who am I?” » Why am I here? What is the goal? I mean, it was absolutely horrible,” she said.

“Breakfast Club” host Loren LoRosa matched Finnie’s description of Williams’ living conditions. Both visited Williams and described her living space as a small apartment where she spends most of the time alone and outside visitors cannot enter without permission from her guardian.

NBC News reached out to Williams’ guardian, Sabrina Morrissey, for comment on Williams’ claims on the radio show.

Williams retired from her television show in 2022. In February 2024, her team said that she had been diagnosed the previous year with primary progressive aphasia, a nervous system syndrome that affects the ability to communicate, and dementia frontotemporal, which affects the frontal and temporal lobes. the brain and is usually associated with changes in behavior and personality, according to the Mayo Clinic.

Williams had also been open with her TV audience in the past about her struggles with addiction and Graves’ disease, an autoimmune disease.

Morrissey said in a New York court filing in November that Williams suffered from “cognitive impairment and permanent disability.”

The filing was part of a lawsuit Morrissey filed against A&E Television Networks, Lifetime Entertainment Services and others in connection with the release of the documentary series “Where’s Wendy Williams?” in February.

Morrissey had filed a lawsuit to try to stop the release of the docuseries, citing exploitation. A&E and Lifetime filed a lawsuit in November, alleging that Morrissey realized the series included criticism of his conservatorship, Variety reported.

A&E previously told NBC News that it looked forward to unveiling the documents relating to Morrissey’s trial because “they tell a very different story.” The documentary series’ filmmakers previously told TODAY.com in February that they were unaware of Williams’ diagnosis during production, although they said, “Some days Wendy was there and very Wendy.” Other days she wasn’t.

The case and countersuit are pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. An attorney for Morrissey did not immediately respond to NBC News’ request for comment.

Radio host Charlamagne tha God told Williams on Thursday’s radio show: “They said you were cognitively impaired and incapacitated.” »

Williams replied: “Do I look that way? ” to which other participants on the show gave a resounding “no”.

Williams said the guardianship system was “broken.”

Williams said she wanted to be with her son in Miami and became emotional when she explained that she wanted to go to Florida for her father’s 94th birthday next month.

“I don’t know if I’m allowed to fly to Miami to wish my dad a happy birthday,” she said. “I’m exhausted thinking, ‘What if I can’t see my dad for his birthday?’ You know, at 94, you know, the next day is not promised.

Finnie asked that the public continue to talk about Williams and her well-being.

“There’s the hashtag #FreeWendy. There is also this Change.org petition. Just make as much noise as possible, GoFundMe, whatever we need to do to make sure my aunt is in a place where she lives her life with dignity,” Finnie said.

“My aunt looks great,” Finnie said. “I saw her in a very limited role, but I saw her. We talk to him. This does not correspond to an incapable person.